The year is 3991. The war along the borders of Celtania, New Vikingland and America has been raging for 1700 years, and now we find ourselves at a stalemate. The world, ravaged by over 20 nuclear winters, is as good as dead. We can't feed our people, we can't farm our land, we can't afford to do anything but strengthen our military. Supreme Commander Lycerius has lead us for as long as anyone can remember, but his time is past, and a new ruler is needed to try to end this god-damn fight. Time to step up...

It's funny, I just looked in my cd case, and I have Civ 2, 3 and 4. I had no idea I even had 3 and 4, I've just kept playing 2 for all these years. (I'm legitimately confused. I think I vaguely recall being bought 3 and someone giving me 4, but not sure.)

Well, since I posted that I realized I may have messed up. I ordered Civ II: Test of Time from here using amazon prime (which will get it here tomorrow). However, I realized that TOT is an addon, not the title of Civ II. Can I play Civ II save games with Civ II: TOT?

I don't think so.. just pirat Civ II, it's not like the original developers will ever get your money if you buy Civ II legit now. And you already paid for the expansion, so I think it's morally okay to pirat it for you:)

I'd make a custom map that basically looked like a + sign where the + was water, and everything else was flat land. Then I'd mass up the aircraft carriers that fired from the water. I'd slowly advance them one space at a time and just yell at the screen when units came into the range of the boats, "YEAH JUST TRY AND MOVE I'VE GOT YOU PINNED DOWN"

I really miss the sweeping, world-changing impacts that your actions had in older civ games like Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri. AC was even more impressive in that you could alter localized weather patterns through terraforming, or even trigger an immune response from the planet itself that could wipe out humanity if sufficiently provoked.

Little things like that are what made the series so great and I'm disappointed that they've dumbed that aspect down in subsequent releases.